That's been my thing, it was easier to understand her when we didn't even now who she WAS. Once she became more 'real', that's when I started having problems. But the Doctor loves her, so by proxy, I do as well. Thank you for sharing this with us. There might be something in here that helps me to suss her out a bit better - and help me understand (all over again), what a wonderful and complex (even if flawed, as we all are), character again.

*HUGS*

I started out not certain that I liked her at all, and over her appearances in S07 and S08, I kept thinking that she really was unlikable. And yet, by the end of the last season, I realized that I did like her - a lot.

It may have been because I finally recognized, from a Doylist perspective, the writers were deliberately creating an unlikable character (or at least it seemed so to me), for reasons of their own. And I realized that, despite their intentions, Jenna's presentation of Clara, and her interpretation of Clara's interactions with Danny, with the Doctor, and with everyone else around her, were making me like her and understand her, perhaps a little more than the writers and producer wanted me to understand her.